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    On Gossip Girl and Grief
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    • 7 min

    On Gossip Girl and Grief

    I By Emma-Lee Miller On the off chance you missed the initial iconic run of the mid-2000s time capsule known as Gossip Girl, you might no...
    We Are Who We Are: Dual Protagonists and Secondary Characters
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    We Are Who We Are: Dual Protagonists and Secondary Characters

    I By Ria Woodburn Director Luca Guadagnino describes his first venture into television, We Are Who We Are (2020), as an ‘immersive experi...
    Mission: Impossible - Raising The Stakes
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    Mission: Impossible - Raising The Stakes

    I By Laura Owen Mission: Impossible has been entertaining audiences for the past 25-years and with two more instalments due to be releas...
    Dash & Lily: The Perfect Rom-Com series this Christmas
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    • 4 min

    Dash & Lily: The Perfect Rom-Com series this Christmas

    Review: Dash & Lily
    The Snyder Cut | The Director Switcheroo
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    • 6 min

    The Snyder Cut | The Director Switcheroo

    Changing creative direction while filming can often cause issues with the pace and structure of a movie.
    Review | The Last of Us Part 2
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    • 7 min

    Review | The Last of Us Part 2

    The Last of Us Part 2 follows returning character, Ellie, now driven by revenge.
    Defending Jacob: Family is Unconditional
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    Defending Jacob: Family is Unconditional

    t first glance Chris Evans’s latest venture Defending Jacob looks like nothing more than another ‘whodunit’ story.
    The Morning Show: Writing a Powerful Antagonist
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    The Morning Show: Writing a Powerful Antagonist

    It’s clear why The Morning Show is one of Apple TV’s big hitters from its complex characters to its stellar performances.
    Telling it for Telly
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    Telling it for Telly

    Adaptation has been a mainstay of film and television since its inception.
    The Power of Pixar
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    • 5 min

    The Power of Pixar

    Screenwriter Al Butter deconstructs what makes Pixar's stories so powerful.
    Review: Dark Waters (2019)
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    • 4 min

    Review: Dark Waters (2019)

    By John Finnegan | Mark Ruffalo is quickly building an impressive portfolio of work which sheds light on social problems (see Spotlight) ...
    Doubt: Visual Storytelling
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    • 6 min

    Doubt: Visual Storytelling

    A breakdown of a key scene from the 2008 drama Doubt.
    Dunkirk Film Analysis – Going to War with Convention
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    • 9 min

    Dunkirk Film Analysis – Going to War with Convention

    Writer/director Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk held the Number One spot at the American box office for its first two weeks.
    It’s Getting Crazy Out There: Reinventing the Joker Again
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    It’s Getting Crazy Out There: Reinventing the Joker Again

    It’s hard to go in to watch Todd Phillips’ Joker without any pre-conceived thoughts and ideas.
    Growing Pains: The trouble with the multi-generational narrative in IT Chapter Two
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    Growing Pains: The trouble with the multi-generational narrative in IT Chapter Two

    Growing Pains: The trouble with the multi-generational narrative in IT Chapter Two
    Resident Evil: Why they work as 'video game' movies.
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    • 3 min

    Resident Evil: Why they work as 'video game' movies.

    While finally bringing myself to watch Resident Evil: The Final Chapter on Netflix recently, I noticed something which had strangely gone...
    The Trailer as Prologue
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    • 4 min

    The Trailer as Prologue

    I wrote a blog post a while back about the problem with spoiler heavy trailers, and referred specifically to The Girl in the Spider's Web...
    Comparing The Avengers and The Justice League
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    Comparing The Avengers and The Justice League

    With the recent success of Marvels' Avengers Endgame still a talking point around the water cooler, I thought it might be interesting to ...
    2008-2018: My List
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    2008-2018: My List

    If you follow Mark Kermode's blog, you'll know that he recently did his 10 best and worst films of the last ten years. Naturally, it got ...
    Die Hard: A Perfect Christmas Movie
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    • 3 min

    Die Hard: A Perfect Christmas Movie

    by John Finnegan | It's the time of year when movie buffs around the world argue in pubs about the validity of Die Hard's status as a Chr...
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